GenderSmart, the Women in Finance Climate Action Group and the 2X Collaborative have launched a call to action for the financial sector in advance of COP27.
The signatories call on allocators of public and private climate finance and other key stakeholders in the financial system to take urgent action to improve gender equality when designing, delivering and accessing climate finance.
The letter is intended to motivate all allocators of capital, as well as other key stakeholders in the climate finance value chain, to make new commitments, and launch new initiatives to support gender-equitable climate finance.
Current Signatories
The current signatories include the following organisations:
30% Club
Aviva plc
British International Investment (BII)
The David Rockefeller Fund
The European Investment Bank (EIB)
Generation Foundation
Generation Investment Management
Gulf International Bank (GIB)
Hesta
Legal and General Investment Management (LGIM)
Oliver Wyman
Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG)
Roy and Patricia Disney Foundation
Trillium Impact Partners GP
Wallace Global Fund
WWF UK
Download the Letter
You can download the letter here. And the press release here.
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Marchmont Communications
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If you represent a financial institution or institutional asset owner and are interested in signing on to this letter please reach out Stella McKenna on stella@gendersmartinvesting.com
If you are an asset owner, asset manager, or investment influencer and would like to talk about other ways to engage in this work please reach out please reach out Stella McKenna on stella@gendersmartinvesting.com
About the Initiative
This letter has been convened by GenderSmart, the Women in Finance Climate Action Group and the 2X Collaborative.
About GenderSmart
GenderSmart is a global field-building initiative dedicated to unlocking the deployment of strategic, impactful gender-smart capital at scale. The GenderSmart community is made up of 2,500 investors and investment influencers, intermediaries, and others, in over 50 countries. Its working group on Gender & Climate Finance highlights the work already underway to address the climate emergency with a gender lens, and encourages the adoption of these approaches at scale and pace in mainstream finance.
About the Women in Finance Climate Action Group
The Women in Finance Climate Action Group is a collective of women leaders from business, the public sector and civil society – who have come together to consider what more can be done to improve gender equality when designing, delivering and accessing climate finance.
About the 2X Collaborative
The 2X Collaborative is a global industry body for gender lens investing. It brings together a broad range of investors deploying capital with a gender lens. It provides members with access to peer learning networks, knowledge, co-investment platforms, partnership and training opportunities and innovative investment tools. 2X Collaborative initiatives like the 2X Gender and Climate Finance Taskforce drive gender-smart investing in thematic areas.
(Note, GenderSmart and the 2X Collaborative are merging January 2023 to become 2X Global)
Relevant Resources
If you're new to this field and interested in learning more, you can start by looking at the following list of resources authored by members of the initiative:
Women in Finance Climate Action Group Report
Women in Finance Climate Action Group Metrics Discussion Paper
GenderSmart Gender & Climate Investment: A Strategy for Unlocking a Sustainable Future
